Andrew said: “It’s definitely a ghost – it’s really spooky. I knew there was a ghost here and I was determined to prove it.

“The two nights before it happened there was just nothing there but I was sure that one night I was just going to be lucky.

“It could be a ghost ‘stepping in’ to my house. Every night it seems to be the windows. I always close them but some nights I wake up and they’re wide open.

“Sometimes the blinds go up aswell. It’s all a bit strange why it should happen. It must be a ghost because I’ve got no other explanation as to what it is.

“I remember waking up that morning last week feeling cold and the window was open even though I had left it closed.

“I always know the ghost has been as soon as I wake up because it’s very very cold and I just know that’s a result of the window being open.

After showing the footage with friends and family one suggested he should put a crucifix on the wall.

The cottage is apparently well-known in the village with years of rumours of it being haunted.

Andrew said: “We live next to an old church in this part of Melbourn – it’s a very well-known cottage and the whole area has quite a spooky presence about it.

“We’ve had the property since the 1980s and we’ve had some tenants saying it’s so spooky they can’t live there.

“There was an old woman who lived in the house before we got the property – she died there – but I’m not sure that has anything to do with the ghost.

“My brother used to stay here years ago, before I moved in to live here. He said that when he was sleeping in bed here it felt like something was ‘pushing down’ on top of him – pushing down on his chest.